The Hon Robert French: Save Social Sciences at UWA - Sign the Petition! chng.it/JDb2xnCQ via Change.org Australia

A powerful piece on the ideology underpinning the decimation of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Australia by my brilliant colleague Sam Han

Excited for my exploration of food as faith to have hit the webs! @UWAanthsocs tandfonline.com/eprint/WPWFYJE…

Excellent, if depressing, article by Lara McKenzie blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial…

"Anthropologists try to meet people with as much empathy and understanding as we can muster, even in the face of profound disagreement," writes the ever brilliant Anand Pandian. This positioning is why we need to support teaching anth & soc @UWAanthsocs amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Of the 40 000 Australian university jobs lost during the pandemic: "The number also exceeds the jobs that would be lost in total if all thermal coal mining in Australia were to end." Yet here we are. theconversation.com/2-out-of-3-mem…

Take a listen to my brilliant friend Mona Chettri being all brilliant and charming and insightful with Jonathan van Nesd...

New paper! Pharmaceutical factories+migration+gender+race+ space= spatialsed patriarchy in Sikkim. Turns out even 'development' can lead to new forms of patriarchy #himalaya #gender #pharmasikkim #patriarchy #SouthAsia #borderlands #development tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

What is Amitabh Bachchan doing in Lachung, Sikkim? Around the world, tourism as 'development' is powerful in its capacity to transform space and society. In my new article in Landscape Research, I discuss how the tourist landscape is shaping place and society in Sikkim, India.

Twas a pleasure co-editing and writing with Tash Fijn and Muhammad Kavesh this Special Issue on the Anthropology of Mutualism rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

My contribution focused on mutualism on Australian heritage breed farms rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

My new favourite-most person Sarah Czerny penned this lovely piece on thinking about social mutualism in transhumant farming in Croatia rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

The ever brilliant Tash Fijn's piece: A mutual ecological approach to health in Mongolia rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Kavesh's fascinating article explores: Donkey trade: Challenges to sustaining mutualism in rural Pakistan rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Enfin: Assa Doron's paper demonstrates the huge cultural significance of the old breeds v modern commercial hybrids. Love it!! "Bleached broilers and divine fowls: The ritual economy of chickens in a South Indian city" rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Excited to publish my first ever spec fic short story with the fab Lauri Turner. In Big Farmer we explore the apocalyptic potential of the current pig breeding trajectory thesociologicalreview.org/fiction/big-fa…

Some thoughts on the role and value of backyard chooks in Australia in times of crisis... environmentandsociety.org/arcadia/backya…

Such a privilege to be part of this collaboration in Nature (!!) between Indigenous community members from across southern Africa, and researchers in Europe, RSA and the US, examining some of the issues with research codes and contracts:nature.com/articles/s4155…

HGR 6.1-2 features @StasjaKoot, Catie Gressier, @CastelijnsEline et al on the limitations of research codes and contracts, alongside an essay on pirates and fish people by Aglaia Iankovskaia. UCD Hunter-Gatherer Research Group ISHGR sheina lew-levy Graeme Warren 🔗bit.ly/HGR6-1-2

Super excited that @tammois and my paper exploring the more radical wing of small scale farming in Australia is out now in the Journal of Peasant Studies JPS